Elderly woman duped in lottery scam Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:31 a.m., Friday, January 27, 2012 when she never received her prize money, she became...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that a team of federal and state officials has been assembled to investigate wrongdoing in the residential mortgage-backed securities market, as introduced by President Obama in his State of the Union speech. Continued here: Fraud team...

Mitt Romney’s enemies have unleashed a torrent of attacks in Florida over Medicare fraud conspiracy committed by a company Romney helped run in the 1990s. The pro-Newt-Gingrich superPAC Winning Our Future has released a one-minute trailer and a “dramatic new film presentation”...

Dozens of the same business and residential addresses were used repeatedly by people to obtain driver's licenses in New Mexico in a pattern that suggests fraud by immigrants trying to game the system, an Associated Press investigation has found. Read more from the original source:  AP...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Dozens of the same business and residential addresses were used repeatedly by people to obtain driver's licenses in New Mexico in a pattern that suggests fraud by immigrants trying to game the system, an Associated Press investigation has found. Here is the...

A prominent businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud in a $135 million real estate scheme that fleeced hundreds of investors, including the Roman Catholic prep school he once attended. View original here: Religious Fla prep school a victim in $135M fraud

The Florida Bar is investigating practices by the KEL law firm that may have played a role in it being bilked out of more than $285,000 in a high-tech flim-flam, the Bar confirmed this week. Continued here:  Bilked by scam, KEL law firm draws Bar scrutiny

A former U.N. official says former NBA great Dikembe Mutombo showed "abject negligence" in a gold deal that resulted in him getting ripped off for millions of dollars involving a militia leader wanted for war crimes." A U.N. report said Mutombo, who has cultivated a...